Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang, Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, admonishes all health workers within the region to embrace QualityRights by helping to promote the rights of persons with psychosocial, cognitive, and intellectual disabilities. This he says will help empower...
The first edition of the QualityRights face-to-face training for the year 2021 kick started in Ho. The five-day training brought together health professionals from selected key mental health institutions to participate. Dr Caroline Amissah, deputy...
The first edition of face-to-face training of the QualityRights in mental health project will take place in Ho (Volta region) this week. The training which forms part of the QualityRights mental health project is the first in 2021....
As part of the QualityRights initiative, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a new comprehensive training, guidance and assessment package materials. The materials together with slider sets, was launched on Wednesday 27th November 2019 by the World Health...
The Ministry of Health (MOH) in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Kenya, is set to launch the new QualityRights in Mental Health initiative on Thursday (November 21,2019) at the Kenya International Convention Center (KICC), in Nairobi....
Press Statement by the Mental Health Authority on World Mental Health Day 2019 Madam Chair, ladies and gentlemen of the press, Good morning. Once again you are welcome to this Press Briefing that launches the 2019 Mental Health Day...
Forty-one per cent of Ghanaians have some form of mental health disorders, particularly psychological distress, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, has said. Quoting research conducted by a group of scholars from...
A team of technical experts who are supporting the implementation of the QualityRights Ghana project, have arrived in Kenya to assist the country in its effort to improve mental health services through the QualityRights in Mental Health initiative. The...
The Mental Health Authority, a leading partner of the QualityRights in Mental Health Ghana initiative has once again called for laws that decriminalize suicide in Ghana. This follows the detention of the thirty-five-year-old man who attempted suicide at parliament...
The World Health Organization is offering a free international course in mental health to some 50,000 Ghanaians who are interested in ending discrimination, abuse in mental health and its related services. Some nurses display their...
